Research
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Choi, Yoonyoung, Hui Zheng (forthcoming). Onset and cessation of smoking: Temporal dynamics and racial difference in educational smoking disparities among women. Population Research and Policy Review.
Zheng, Hui, Jonathan Dirlam, Yoonyoung Choi, Linda George (forthcoming). Understanding the health decline of Americans in Boomers to Millennials. Social Science & Medicine.
Zheng, Hui, Kathleen Cagney, Yoonyoung Choi. (2023) Predictors of cognitive functioning trajectories among older Americans: A new investigation covering 20 years of age‑ and non‑age‑related cognitive change. PloS One, 18(2), e0281139.
Media coverage: NBC News, SciTechDaily, etc.
Zheng, Hui, Yoonyoung Choi, Jonathan Dirlam, Linda George. (2022). Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans’ health. Social Science & Medicine, 303, 115016.
Media coverage: Science Daily, Medical Xpress, etc.
Yoo, Nari, Yumin Hong, Yoonyoung Choi. (2023) Immigrant‑origin youths at risk: Trends in suicidal behaviors among Korean adolescents by immigrant origins and ethnic options (2011–2019). Journal of Affective Disorders, 321, 253–264.
Choi, Yoonyoung. (2022). A decomposition of declining crude birth rate in South Korea, 1990–2015. Journal of Population Research, 39, 373–389.
Work in progress
Zheng, Hui, Yoonyoung Choi. Reevaluating the “Deaths of Despair” narrative: Racial/ethnic heterogeneity in the trend of psychological distress‑related death, 1997‑2014
Choi, Yoonyoung, Hui Zheng, Zhenchao Qian. Race, marriage, stress, and mortality: How does interracial marriage shape Americans’ distress and mortality?
Zheng, Hui, Taehyun Kim,Yoonyoung Choi. Narrowing and stalling Black‑White difference in mortality by age, sex, and education, 2000 to 2021